项目名称：空中别墅

地点：莫尔内格，突尼斯

设计团队：ARK-architecture

建筑面积：1500 m²

竣工时间：2024年

摄影：Bilel Khemakhem

设计特色：

项目 - 突尼斯ARK建筑事务所在莫尔内格设计的空中别墅是一座1500平方米的当代住宅杰作，体现了地中海现代主义与场地特定设计的精妙融合。该项目坐落在占地两公顷的缓坡地块上，以戏剧性的杰巴尔·埃尔萨斯山脉为背景，创造出一种建筑悬浮于地形之上的非凡视觉效果。

该项目最具革命性的设计特色是其超薄悬挑结构：仅45厘米厚的水平挑板大胆地从主体建筑伸出，如同漂浮在半空中的建筑平面。这些违抗重力的结构元素既具备美学价值又兼顾环境功能，投射出精确的阴影线条以提供天然的太阳能防护，同时营造出启发项目命名的建筑悬浮错觉。

ARK建筑事务所的设计策略围绕着重量感与轻盈感之间的核心对立展开。三层建筑并非强加于景观之上，而是沿着自然轮廓层叠展开，其大地色调的纹理表面与地面形成无缝的色彩连续性。这种地质涌现感通过建筑的材料选择得到进一步强化：捕捉地中海变幻光线的纯白体块、温暖的洞石和木材点缀，以及将建筑锚定于环境中的沙色混凝土。

主立面作为精心校准的画框发挥作用，将周围景观的视野转化为一系列生动的画面。每个立面都根据其朝向进行调整，编排出既沉浸又冥想的空间体验。内部空间优先考虑连续性和流动性，双高空间将日光引导至核心深处，而垂直交通则成为提供不断变化景观视角的高架长廊。

双子无边泳池将建筑几何延伸至天际线，在这里水面与天空汇聚进行静默对话，完成了项目不仅存在于景观中、更与景观共生的愿景。空中别墅代表了场地特定地中海现代主义的典范：一种优先考虑清晰度、精确性和感官深度的建筑语言。

设计团队 - ARK建筑事务所成立于2011年，由建筑师比莱勒·赫马克海姆(Bilel Khemakhem)创立，已迅速确立为专业从事当代建筑设计的领先事务所，提供涵盖从概念设计到施工完成全过程的综合服务。在赫马克海姆的领导下，这家总部位于突尼斯的工作室已成为当代建筑领域的重要力量，提供将环境响应性与建筑精致性无缝整合的创新解决方案。

该事务所的设计哲学以语境现代主义为核心，空中别墅项目证明了他们在结构创新方面的精湛技艺：通过极薄的45厘米悬挑结构创造戏剧性空间体验，同时响应地中海气候条件。在赫马克海姆的指导下，ARK建筑事务所发展出独特的建筑语汇，在大胆的形式手法与环境敏感性之间取得平衡，运用洞石、木材和沙色混凝土的材料选择实现语境整合。

对设计卓越性的认可跨越多个国际平台和竞赛。该事务所获得多项著名奖项提名，包括阿拉伯建筑师奖(2018年)、迦太基建筑日奖(2019年)、ArchDaily年度建筑奖(2021年、2023年、2025年)等。ARK建筑事务所对设计创新和技术卓越的承诺使该事务所持续处于中东北非地区当代建筑实践的前沿地位。

Project Name: Villa Air

Location: Morneg, Tunisia

Design Team: ARK-architecture

Total Floor Area: 1,500 m²

Completion: 2024

Photography: Bilel Khemakhem

Design Features:

Project - Perched on a gentle slope in Morneg, Tunisia, Villa Air by ARK-architecture reimagines Mediterranean modernism through a striking dialogue between weightlessness and gravity. The 1,500-square-metre residence, completed in 2024, unfolds across a two-hectare site with the dramatic Jbal Errsas mountain range as its backdrop, creating an architectural composition that appears to hover above the terrain.

The villa's most distinctive feature lies in its impossibly thin cantilevers—mere 45 centimetres thick—that project boldly from the main structure like horizontal planes suspended in mid-air. These gravity-defying elements serve both aesthetic and environmental purposes, casting precise shadow lines that provide natural solar protection while creating the illusion of architectural levitation that inspired the project's name.

Rather than imposing upon the landscape, the three-level residence cascades along the natural contours, its earthy-toned textured surfaces fostering seamless chromatic continuity with the ground. This geological emergence is enhanced by the building's material palette: pristine white volumes that capture shifting Mediterranean light, warm travertine and timber accents, and sand-pigmented concrete that anchors the structure to its context.

The principal façade operates as a carefully calibrated frame, transforming views of the surrounding landscape into living tableaux. Interior spaces prioritise flow and continuity, with double-height volumes channelling daylight deep into the core while vertical circulation becomes elevated promenades offering evolving perspectives.

Twin infinity pools extend the architectural geometry toward the horizon, where water and sky converge in silent dialogue. This creates the project's central paradox: reconciling intimacy with openness through refined threshold gradations where interiors dissolve into terraces and platforms.

Villa Air transcends mere functionality to achieve a poetic condition of dwelling—a testament to site-specific modernism that privileges clarity, precision, and sensory depth in perfect symbiosis with Tunisia's dramatic topography.

Design Team - ARK-architecture, founded in 2011 by architect Bilel Khemakhem, has rapidly established itself as a leading contemporary architecture firm specializing in comprehensive design services that span the entire project lifecycle from conceptualization through construction completion. Under Khemakhem's leadership, this Tunis-based studio has emerged as a formidable force in contemporary architecture, delivering innovative solutions that seamlessly integrate environmental responsiveness with architectural sophistication.

The firm's design philosophy centers on contextual modernism, evidenced through projects like Villa Air, which demonstrates their mastery of structural innovation through impossibly thin 45-centimetre cantilevers that create dramatic spatial experiences while responding to Mediterranean climatic conditions. Under Khemakhem's guidance, ARK-architecture has developed a distinctive architectural language that balances bold formal gestures with environmental sensitivity, utilizing material palettes of travertine, timber, and sand-pigmented concrete to achieve contextual integration.

Recognition for their design excellence spans multiple international platforms and competitions. The firm has garnered nominations for prestigious awards including the Arab Architects Awards (2018), Prix des Journées Architecturales de Carthage (2019), ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards (2021, 2023, 2025), and the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Awards (2024).

ARK-architecture's commitment to design innovation and technical excellence continues to position the firm at the forefront of contemporary architectural practice in the MENA region.